Chapter 197 Becoming a Ferryman
Chapter 197 Becoming a Ferryman
Tian Lin raised his hand and grabbed the eleven copper coins that fell, and said with a bow, "This ferry and the bamboo pole are worth a lot of money, enough to be worth more than two hundred copper coins. So, Senior Brother Zhaixingzi, please take back these eleven copper coins."
"Don't call me Brother, and don't give me eleven copper coins. I don't ask about your origins or your future. We have no karma."
As he finished speaking, Mei Xiangu's voice suddenly rang out from a distance, "Zhaixingzi, why don't you come out quickly? Aren't you going to give me an explanation for what happened to my senior sister?"
The young man on the boat frowned, bowed to Tian Lin and said, "I have something else to do, we won't meet again."
When Mei Xiangu's figure appeared, the young man had already rowed the boat and disappeared on the sea.
Mei Xiangu frowned and looked at Tian Lin. She stood on the bow of the boat and asked Tian Lin, "Where is the Star Picker?"
Not to mention that Tian Lin didn't know Zhai Xingzi's whereabouts, even if he knew Zhai Xingzi's whereabouts, Tian Lin didn't want to get involved in the muddy water between them.
He was just recalling Zhaixingzi's actions just now. It can be seen that Zhaixingzi did not seem to want to know him.
"I don't know where he went either - but you, Fairy Mei, if you don't go back, I'm afraid Miss Jiang won't be able to control those foundation-building cultivators."
Fairy Mei snorted coldly, then flew up into the clouds.
But at this time the sea was as dark as a curtain. Even with her high level of cultivation, it was difficult for her to see through the fog and find Zhaixingzi who was deliberately hiding his whereabouts.
She finally gave up unwillingly, flicked her sleeves, and fell towards the defense line like a meteor.
At this moment, Tian Lin also boarded the ferryman's boat and paddled back with a bamboo pole.
He was touching the wooden sign he had summoned from the storage bag. There were three wooden signs with the word "ferry" engraved on them in his hand. Tian Lin had a total of three in his hand.
These three wooden plaques are of the same shape, all black, but their weights vary.
Tian Lin remembered that Zhaixingzi also had such a wooden plaque on his waist, but the color of the wooden plaque was red.
"With this wooden sign and the ferryboat, can I become a ferryman?"
Although Tian Lin had such a guess in his mind, he did not rashly hang the wooden sign around his waist.
He paddled with a bamboo pole and quickly returned to the big boat where Mei Xiangu was.
Because of the arrival of Mei Xiangu, the originally chaotic defense line has been restored to order. Those people did not know what Tian Lin had experienced, nor did they know about Tian Lin's encounter with Mei Xiangu.
When they first saw the ferry, their faces looked extremely grim.
But when they saw Shi Tianlin riding the ferry, their expressions became particularly wonderful and their minds were completely relaxed.
Now they were no longer worried about the threat from the ferryman, because it was almost dawn and it was time to change shifts.
What they are worried about now is that everyone still owes Tian Lin three high-quality spirit stones.
It's just that Tian Lin's strength is too unfathomable, and they don't have the courage to default on their debts -
"Second brother!"
As soon as he saw Tian Lin appear, Gao He smiled and bowed.
Tian Lin also cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Brother, are you going to give me spirit stones now? Well, you and your sister-in-law will give me six high-grade spirit stones.
If you don’t have top-grade spirit stones, you can also use the Soul Gathering Orbs to get a discount.”
Gao He's smile froze, and he could no longer say words to try to get close to him or to deny his debt.
Tian Lin did not get entangled with Gao He, but returned to his boat.
Yu'er hurried forward and handed a bag and a list to Tian Lin.
Tian Lin glanced at the bag and found nine high-quality spirit stones inside, and three people's names were written on the list.
Tian Lin bowed to the three people, and then said to the others: "If you don't have enough spirit stones, you can also exchange them with soul-gathering beads. If I remember correctly, a soul-gathering bead filled with residual souls can also be exchanged for a high-quality spirit stone."
What Tian Lin said seemed to be correct, but in fact, who would sell the Soul Gathering Pearl for no reason?
In the market, a soul-gathering bead can indeed be exchanged for a high-quality spirit stone.
However, if an individual wants to use a high-quality spirit stone to purchase a soul-gathering bead filled with residual souls, it is absolutely impossible to buy it.
"Forget it, just pretend that I didn't go out tonight."
After a foundation-building cultivator finished speaking, he took out three soul-gathering beads filled with residual souls and threw them to Tian Lin.
Tian Lin waved his sleeves, and the three beads flying from the air were instantly rolled into his sleeves.
Tian Lin smiled, bowed to the foundation-building cultivator, and then said, "Is there any fellow Taoist who wants to exchange soul beads now?"
There was no way to hide, and these people, including Gao He and his wife, eventually handed over the Soul Gathering Orbs.
Mei Xiangu on the big ship watched all this coldly and did not stop Tian Lin.
At this time, there were very few wandering souls left on the sea because of the previous battle and the appearance of three ferrymen.
At this time, Mei Xiangu, holding a sword, returned to the shore to find the foundation-building monks who were on duty during the day to relieve their guard.
Not long after, Tian Lin had just collected the soul-gathering beads when a dozen ships approached from afar.
The shift change process was easy. Tian Lin and Yu'er sisters checked the soul-gathering beads and returned to the coast smoothly.
Cui Er couldn't help but say happily: "Master Tian has collected so many soul-gathering beads. Will there be a chance for him to enter the Shuiyun Sect?"
Yu'er believed that Tian Lin was not Zhaixingzi, and was certain that Tian Lin was Tian Shuang. Therefore, she was happier than Cui'er, but after thinking about it, she shook her head again:
"We, the Tong family, have sent out so many disciples and elders this time just for the quota of Shuiyun Sect disciples. So the quota of outer disciples will definitely fall on the heads of the Tong family disciples. We—
I'm afraid Master Tian Dao will not have the chance to become an outer disciple of Shuiyun Sect."
If Tian Lin became a disciple of the immortal sect, her two swords would become more powerful and she would be able to show off her power like Mei Xiangu's sword.
Yu'er had no intention of showing off, but was envious of Mei Xiangu's status and the convenience of practicing as she held a sword.
It is said that when one person attains enlightenment, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven.
These people who hold swords and sell their lives and property to become slaves, don't they just want to get some favors from their masters?
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While the two maids were chatting, Tian Lin's boat had already docked.
People from the east and west had already gathered on the coast.
Tian Lin discovered that the foundation-building cultivators who were guarding the east side to kill evil spirits were particularly excited, and were shouting and talking about something.
He went to Master Long Dan and heard Master Long Dan say:
"Young Master Thirteen is in bad luck. He was guarding the south last night and the west today, thinking he could have a good rest. Unexpectedly, he encountered the Sun God in the west."
Hearing the words "Riyoushen", Tian Lin paused for a moment, looked at Master Long Dan, and heard Master Long Dan say:
"It was thanks to the intervention of the Jindan cultivators from Shuiyun Sect and Master Zhou that the Thirteenth Young Master might not have been able to come back."
Tian Lin couldn't help but say after hearing this: "To be able to survive under the hands of the Sunward God, this Thirteenth Young Master must be quite powerful.
Even if there is a Sun God in the sea, it should have been destroyed by the seniors of Shuiyun Sect and Master Zhou. How could there be a Sun God in the western sea area? "
Listen to Master Long Dan say: "There are so many wandering spirits in Shenxiantang. It is not so easy to kill them all. You said that the Thirteenth Young Master is quite powerful, which is true;
Although the Thirteenth Young Master is not a disciple of the Immortal Sect, his talent and strength are not inferior to those of the Immortal Sect. Everyone knows that he will soon become an outer disciple of the Shuiyun Sect, and this is also something that the Shuiyun Sect has tacitly agreed to. "
Master Long Dan praised Tong Shisan and then asked Tian Lin, "I heard that fellow Taoist's Buddha Demon Freedom Art has reached the Great Perfection stage? Is it because of the Buddha Demon Pill I took?"
Seeing Master Long Dan say this, not only Cui'er and Yu'er felt that Master Long Dan was shameless, even Master Long Dan's sword-bearing Zhong'er felt that his master was daydreaming.
Who doesn't know that Master Long Dan's Buddha and Demon Pill cannot be used to practice the Buddha and Demon Freedom Technique?
But Master Long Dan was extremely conceited when it came to making pills, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with the pills he made.
"It seems to have some effect, but I think that your elixir formula, Fellow Daoist Long, may not be complete."
It was Tian Lin who spoke up. If someone else had made such a comment, Master Long Dan would definitely be angry.
"I also feel that my recipe is not complete. It should be missing one or two herbs. But I still need to experiment to find out what herbs are missing."
Tian Lin drank the tea, bowed to Master Long, and went up to the second floor of the alchemy room.
Because the area around Chenxiantang was too noisy and crowded, Tian Lin borrowed the second floor from Master Long Dan for his practice.
When he entered the house, he was not in a hurry to meditate, but took out all the ferryman's wooden signs.
Ever since he saw the wooden sign with a red border made by Zhaixingzi, Tian Lin became interested in this wooden sign.
He took one of the wooden plaques and squeezed it hard, imitating the way he would pick stars.
The wooden sign seemed extremely hard, and Tian Lin could not move it at all even with all his strength.
Tian Lin frowned, channeled his inner energy into his palm and squeezed it again, only to find that the wooden sign in his palm was still intact.
Tian Lin thought about it again and again, and finally bit his finger and dripped the blood from his fingertips onto the wooden sign.
In an instant, darkness invaded the entire room.
When Tian Lin looked up, he found that the sunlight outside the window had turned into moonlight and a sky full of stars.
He didn't know where he was. He only saw resentful souls struggling in the water everywhere under the vast river.
When I looked up again, I saw only a skull hanging high in the night sky, swallowing countless resentful souls with one bite.
"If you don't die, how can you be reborn?"
Tian Lin didn't know whether the voice came from the skull's mouth, but he only saw a finger as tall as a mountain reaching out from the void and pointing at him through the air.
Tian Lin had no way to avoid this.
He only felt his soul burning, and the flames made his mind and spirit suffer unbearable pain.
Tian Lin's eyes were red with anger, and just when he didn't know what to do, the scene in front of him changed.
The moon, stars and the skull that devoured the souls of the dead in the void disappeared.
The mountains and rivers beneath his feet and countless resentful souls have also disappeared.
Tian Lin found that he was still on the second floor of the alchemy room.
The people outside the window were still busy and busy with their own things, and no one noticed what had just happened to Tian Lin on the second floor.
"Hallucination?"
Tian Lin frowned, then reached for the sign on his waist: "It's not an illusion - I am now a ferryman."
(End of this chapter)